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Working with the animation students at Brigham Young University has been a real treat. After much blood, sweat, and tears, we have finally completed Alight. We spent countless hours animating Sparker, the "fire boy," and Aquanna the "water girl," to get the effects and character animation looking just right. To us, they're almost real-life characters by now. We hope you enjoy this unique little piece of Flash animation, mixed with After Effects compositing.

Rated 2.5 / 5 stars2011-06-30 23:08:20

Rated 2.5 / 5 stars2011-07-04 12:05:52

Huh?

I like how people say it has a great story when it's something so random it'd make no sense if there weren't special effects to back it up. How is this dramatic? The music might make you think it is, but it's not. Great drawings, but the actual film.. Not so great.

Rated 2 / 5 stars2011-07-10 05:27:54

Meh...

I'll be blunt... I liked the animation, and the music was alright... but that's it. A good story needs good characters, great plot, and it should all flow together naturally in a way that immerses the viewer. I went into this thinking that there was a story, but I was disappointed... I can't say that I hate this, I barely got to know the characters before you took them away. There isn't much of a plot in this... and it's too short in my opinion. I would have loved to have been immersed in this, to actually get an emotional attachment to the characters. Without attachment, without immersion or depth, it is just pretty images.